When we interviewed people who were concerned with security, not just be s but be pulled from other parts of the government also, they were not happy, people we talk to were not happy with their role in the selection process. So the pendulum had shifted from security to design. I mentioned there are several examples of our observations as i said before, didnt come from the six of us, they were based on the interviews we did with a hundred people, not all of them obviously opined on oboe and security but many did. So those observations that are in there, it is not my opinion. It is what we got from people who work on a daily basis, will hopefully work on a daily basis with bobo. I am out of time, mr. Chairman. Of the gentlewoman could yield 4 response to this. I will yield. As mr. Green put together this report which is an offshoot and started because of the accountability review, lydia muniz, has the state department accepted this . Has it been approved . Anything in your mind that has
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State came forward with a startling allegation. That allegation was that former secretary of state Hillary Clintons aides ordered the destruction of documents to prevent congress and the arb from ever seeing them. Chairman dowdy called these allegations that the committee would be investigating this. What he failed to admit was that at the time of the chairmans fox news interview republicans had already investigated the maxwell claim and only found evidence against it. But when democratic staff spoke to that witness he said he didnt recall having been in the document review session that mr. Maxwell described. He also denied ever being instructed to flag information and documents that might be unfavorable to the department. He further reported that he never edge gauged in or was ever aware of any destruction of documents. That witness was perfectly willing to talk to democrats and has always been willing to talk to us. He also never asked to be treated as a confidential source. Hes neve
Would like them to be prioritized, its january 27th today. There is no date yet scheduled for an interview of any of these people. Were not going to wait to receive now all of these documents, which would have been the more efficient way for a real investigation to be done. So wed like to know what date, and because we want to preserve the safety and security of these personnel, wed like to know, i would say within the next 24 hours, which witnesses will be made available next week, and which witnesses will be made available the following week . And which witnesses will be made available the following week and so on . And we all have a certain number of staff, but our staff will go to these witnesses, or we will work with you to make arrangements to get these staff back to washington, d. C. , to conduct these interviews. Are you in agreement that that can be done . To provide a bit of context and we will be working with the Justice Department on all of this as well to ensure their safe
Certain information. Yes. But when it comes to priorities, he sets those priorities, not you. Were responsive to the committees priorities. And tell me, when tell me the priority list right now. What is that list . Number one. It is, number one is the production of documents that were requested regarding former officials, and the top of the list was for former secretary clinton. Number two are the interviews of the four Diplomatic Security agents we referenced. Thats not to say that the other requests are forgotten. Thats not it at all. What it is is to say those are the issues those are the items that we have worked most diligently on and we will be. We have good story that we are producing within several days we will begin producing to the committee those beginning of those documents that were requested. Its only been six weeks, roughly, since the initial request. And then a few about a month of the finalization of that. And in between that, weve prepared for hearings that didnt come